Managing Cybersecurity in the Process Industries

A resource providing background information, perspectives, techniques, and case histories for assessing and managing cybersecurity threats in the process industries

This book contains guidelines for companies to improve their process safety performance through the identification, prevention, and mitigation of cybersecurity threats. It explains how to identify, assess, and protect systems with practical techniques and approaches. The reader will learn key points through detailed case histories.

Topics covered include:

• Risk receptors, Targets, Threat Sources and Types of Attacks
• Integrating Cybersecurity Management into the Process Safety Framework
• Designing a secure Industrial Automation and Control System
• How to create a cybersecurity policy, implementation plan and threat response plan

Professionals working in the fields of process safety and cybersecurity can use this book to understand better how the two fields interconnect, how to improve process safety cyber security measures, and how to respond to security attacks.